What happened in the missile crisis in October 1962 has been prettified to make it look as if acts of courage and thoughtfulness abounded.
NOAM CHOMSKYFor a privileged minority, Western democracy provides the leisure, the facilities, and the training to seek the truth lying hidden behind the veil of distortion and misrepresentation, ideology and class interest, through which the events of current history are presented to us.
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If you’re teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.
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But I would not intend this to imply that in all imaginable circumstances one must, necessarily, act in accordance with this general responsibility.
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The murder of Lumumba, in which the U.S. was involved, in the Congo destroyed Africa’s major hope for development. Congo is now total horror story, for years.
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Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.
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The Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor led to many very good things.
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The elections are run by the same industries that sell toothpaste on television.
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Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied.
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I mean, to say it in a sentence, he describes elections as occasions in which groups of investors coalesce and invest to control the state.
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Anti-Americanism is a pure totalitarian concept. The very notion is idiotic.
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In the US, there is basically one party – the business party. It has two factions, called Democrats and Republicans, which are somewhat different but carry out variations on the same policies.
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Two days after the Boston marathon bombings, there was a drone strike in Yemen attacking a peaceful village, which killed a target who could very easily have been apprehended. But, of course, it is just easier to terrorise people.
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Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it’s from Neptune.
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The invasion of Iraq, particularly, gave a big shot in the arm to the jihadi extremists.
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When you look at a corporation, just like when you look at a slave owner, you want to distinguish between the institution and the individual.
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Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.
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